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Bible Journey For Tuesday, July 17, 2012

17 Jul

Here is today’s Bible reading:  1 Chronicles 24:1-26:11; Romans 4:1-12; Psalm 13:1-6; Proverbs 19:15-16.
Psalm 13:1-6 (NIV)  
For the director of music. A psalm of David.

    How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever?
        How long will you hide your face from me?
    [2] How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
        and every day have sorrow in my heart?
        How long will my enemy triumph over me?
 
    [3] Look on me and answer, O Lord my God.
        Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;
    [4] my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
        and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
 
    [5] But I trust in your unfailing love;
        my heart rejoices in your salvation.
    [6] I will sing to the Lord,
        for he has been good to me.
 
I love how the Psalmist honestly pours out his heart to God, but then ends with what he knows to be absolutely true:  God is trustworthy.  His lamenting changes to rejoicing.  His crying turns to singing.  This is not because his circumstances have changed, but his focus has.  May God enable us to focus on what is true, that our weeping may turn into singing.

 
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